10 Facts About Vera Bock

Vera Bock was a Russian-born artist who spent most of her career in the United States.

Vera Bock is known for her book illustrations and for the posters she made for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.

Vera Bock was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on 4 April 1905.

Vera Bock's father was an American banker and her mother was a Russian concert pianist.

Vera Bock was trained in painting and drawing, and spent a year in England studying woodcutting, manuscript illumination, printing and photogravure.

Vera Bock designed posters for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.

Vera Bock worked for the New York City poster division from 1936 to 1939.

Vera Bock made a series of posters, History of Civic Services, which are reminiscent of the forms she often used in children's books.

Vera Bock's work was shown in exhibitions at the New York Public Library, Art Directors Club of New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, and New York Public Library.

Vera Bock married George Kaestlin late in her life and moved to Switzerland.